Word: quantock
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...containers with toilet facilities for 18 hours a day. There are about seven detainees per container, and up to 40 are allowed into one of the many recreation yards at any one time. "These guys are bad guys; they're the worst of the worst," says Brigadier General David Quantock, the commander of Task Force 134 which oversees the detention system in Iraq. He walks past a handful of detainees playing table tennis. "These are the guys the Iraqi government wants." (See pictures of the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib detainee scandal...
...them under Iraqi law. Otherwise the new U.S-Iraqi security pact that came into effect in January demands that they be released. "Before, if we felt that we had a good basis to believe the individual was an imperative risk to the security of Iraq, that was good enough," says Quantock. "After 1 January [of this year], it is not." (See pictures from inside Guantanamo...
...expand the rules of evidence to include forensics such as bomb residue and fingerprints, rather than just the traditional requirements of two witness statements or a confession to secure a conviction. As a result, conviction rates have skyrocketed, from about 30% in October, to over 90%, according to Quantock...
...they are handed over to Baghdad. They have also raised concerns about "appalling" internment conditions as well as a backlog of judicial cases and questions as to how free and fair the judicial process is. Overcrowding is a pressing concern. The Iraqi prison system is operating at 103% capacity, Quantock says, and as a result, more than 500 convicted criminals are being held at Bucca on behalf of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice until space opens up. Says a senior Iraqi Ministry of Justice official who requested anonymity: "We have a lot of pressure on us, from political parties, human...